Quotes About Relativity

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you travelled. This will come to you as a profound personal shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.

In Relativity, Matter tells Space how to bend, and Space tells Matter how to move.

One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed it. You can't.

Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in restaurants.

Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.

facts in the sense of an individual past. Facts were like longitude on a map, measurements of temporal relativity, evoking but not containing the myriad associations, tones, colours, remarks, incidents, feelings that formed the patchwork brocade of a life.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don't look at its manifestation.

I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!

the success of relativistic quantum field theory offers no reason to believe that there is any such thing as a relativistic quantum field.

As for the next nearest star, Proxima Centauri, if you look at it in 2012, what you are seeing is happening in 2008.

Many of us have no grasp of quantum theory, or Einstein's theories of special and general relativity, but this does not in itself lead us to oppose these theories! Darwinism, unlike 'Einsteinism', seems to be regarded as fair game for critics with any degree of ignorance.

whatever is subject to time is limited, is relative, and is made manifest as world by the 'last things' of which we are now cognizant, whether we will or not. 'It is in no way possible to concede to the Pharisees a kingdom of God already appearing among them, wholly on this side of the end' (on Luke 17:20–1, p.

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).

Time is construct, in relativity every thing flows, no past or present, only the now.

Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

As an atom, so is the universe. As is a drop of water, so is an ocean.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.